About Patrick Keisler

I’m a husband, a father, an Atlanta Braves fan, and oh yeah…I know a thing or two about Microsoft SQL Server, because I work for Microsoft supporting it as Premier Field Engineer. I have over 15 years of DBA experience and have gained considerable knowledge in SQL Server by supporting lots of different type of applications ranging from high-volume trading applications to large data warehouses. I hold several certifications including MS Azure Infrastructure Solutions, MCSE Data Platform, MCITP certifications in SQL Server 2008 for administration and development, and CompTIA Security+.

I graduated from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte where I obtained a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree with a Major in Management Information Systems. I had high hopes of using my degree to become a programmer for a tech company, but I soon learned that programming in C, Pascal, and Visual Basic was not my strong point. However, oddly enough, I was really good at programming in Cobol, Windows batch files, and T-SQL. It seemed as though any code that is processed serially was easy for me to pick up. I guess I was just somehow destined to become a DBA.

I started this blog to share my knowledge of SQL Server with the hope of saving DBAs time and effort in their everyday tasks. I hope you enjoy it!

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All content of this blog is the personal comments of Patrick Keisler, and do not reflect in any way the views of my employer, Microsoft Corporation.